On May 6, 11:38*pm, Tony Polson wrote:
My feeling is that Dave and his jolly good chums are set to visit on
us the same horrors that Thatcher did, having learned nothing from
the post 1979 record. They won't be the ones that have to go without.

They enjoyed 18 years of power after 1979, so maybe their post-179
record wasn't so unpopular after all.

I wonder how the alleged "horrors" of Thatcher's Tories compare with the
"achievements" of NuLabour? *Notably, the latter's two illegal wars, the
near-destruction of the British financial services industry thanks to
inept regulation (or a lack of it) and the massive and apparently
uncontrolled rises in public spending and taxation that show no kind of
return.

*Two* illegal wars? Are you a Taliban fan or a Milosevic fan, Mr P?

Financial services regulation was modelled on the Major and Thatcher
governments' policy, and notably the *actual*, *real-life* Tory
opposition only ever criticised the regime on the grounds that it was
too onerous on the poor banks (see: Daniel 'we should be more like
Iceland' Hannan)

John Major's Tory government was accused of sleaze and incompetence but
nothing they did bears more than the slightest resemblance to the
institutionalised gross corruption and negligence of this NuLabour lot.

No, *everything* they did is *almost exactly identical*.

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